YOU WERE THERE!: If you were here over the weekend, congratulations … you just lived through the biggest Fourth of July holiday weekend to ever storm over our fun-loving barrier island. Hey, everyone likes to say they survived the biggest storms, so why not hype getting through a human hurricane?
And how can I so formally rate the weekend as the biggest of all time? Science!
So maybe in my case it’s only semi-science, but it still looks good on paper.
I have it on officially unofficial authority that there has never been so many, uh,human domicile units (HDUs) on LBI.
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